Why I have issue with the svn cleanup?

Question

Help me, please, with an issue:

build@subversion:~> find /home/build/cruise-work/cruise-checkout/30.0/ | grep rep-cache.db
build@subversion:~> cd /home/build/cruise-work/cruise-checkout/30.0/
build@subversion:~/cruise-work/cruise-checkout/30.0> svn cleanup
svn: E200031: sqlite[S8]: attempt to write a readonly database
svn: E200031: Additional errors:
svn: E200031: sqlite[S8]: attempt to write a readonly database
build@subversion:~/cruise-work/cruise-checkout/30.0>

EDIT1:

build@subversion:~/cruise-work/cruise-checkout/30.0> chmod g+w rep-cache.db chmod: cannot access `rep-cache.db': No such file or directory

EDIT2:

I haven't the rep-cache.db file at all:

> sudo find / | grep rep-cache.db root's password:
> /usr/src/subversion-1.8.11/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache-db.sql
> /usr/src/subversion-1.8.11/subversion/libsvn_fs_fs/rep-cache-db.h

Answer 1

Things seemed to get in a mess for me after I have been recursively changing permissions on directories and had given ownership to another user. I am assuming that the .svn directories now belonged to that other user and I did not have permission to alter them. Using sudo, just for the cleanup, solved the problem.

sudo svn cleanup

Answer 2

Often this issues happens because you are not running svn commands as super user. So just add sudo to the commands and try that.

Answer 3

this is caused by wrong permissions on a file on the SVN server.

The file “rep-cache.db” will most likely have wrong permissions like the group not having write access to the file.

A simple chmod g+w on the file will be enough for the error message not appearing again.